What's the difference between lava and sand?

Lava


Definition:

  • (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
  • (2) A 2.6-mile trail links two of the biggest, most accessible lava tubes, the lower and upper tubes.
  • (3) Even by Congolese standards, Goma has endured much in its history , from mass looting by the army to the arrival of a million Rwandan Hutu refugees, years of cross-border wars and, in 2002, a volcanic eruption that poured a tide of lava through its heart.
  • (4) As the heat drained from the city’s black streets, hewn out of lava from nearby Mount Etna , the stream of new arrivals kept coming.
  • (5) On 1 February, 17 died when Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province spewed lava and gas.
  • (6) Half of Goma was said to be on fire - blazes which were started when the lava came in contact with gasoline stored in plastic containers in buildings and garages.
  • (7) Adult female and juvenile Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis mexicana) were collected bimonthly at Lava Cave, New Mexico from May through September.
  • (8) Jesse Lava, campaign director for Beyond Bars , a prison reform advocacy group, puts it this way: Prison doesn't cure addiction.
  • (9) Most tourists satisfy themselves with a quick drive around the crater rim, stopping for photos at the viewing points, but if you really want to smell the sulphur, feel the heat of the lava and hear the hissing of the steam vents, a bike tour is perfect.
  • (10) The investigation started as an inquiry into a money-laundering operation at a car wash, and has retained the name Lava Jato even as it mushrooms to encompass other illegal activities.
  • (11) Updated at 8.09pm GMT 8.06pm GMT Falcons 20 - Seahawks 7, 2:20 3rd quarter Gonzalez is a hill of molten lava - get off him!
  • (12) As the lava cooled and contracted, it split along joints into columns, most of which are pentagonal or hexagonal, with a few three, four, and seven-sided columns scattered throughout.
  • (13) A consideration of the island as a source of 222Rn must take into account the relatively low average flux density associated with the lava fields and accompanying thin soils.
  • (14) Till last week the lava flow was 10-mile long and covered about eight square miles.
  • (15) He said lava was still flowing into Goma (population around 400,000) and had "cut the town in half", burning a number of wooden houses.
  • (16) The arterial and venous segments of SVAs and LAVAs and an equivalent length of normal vessel were harvested at 48 hours (n = 16, 16, 16), 2 weeks (n = 12, 12, 12), and 4 weeks (n = 12, 12, 12).
  • (17) Fans of the film series can experience classic scenes at a new interactive exhibition at the London wax museum after teams of artists created models of Anakin Skywalker amid the lava of Mustafar and Han Solo in the Millennium Falcon alongside his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca.
  • (18) The results presented in this paper do not support the hypothesis of Nardelli, Amaldi & Lava-Sanchez that the number of ribosomal cistrons in various amphibians can always be expressed as a power of 2.
  • (19) Judge Sergio Moro – who has overseen the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigation into bribery and kickbacks at Petrobras and other major corporations – must now assess allegations that the Workers’ party figurehead accepted 3.7m reais ($1.1m) in bribes.
  • (20) The bursting strength of suture- and laser-assisted vascular anastomosis (LAVA) was assessed using a standard rat femoral artery model.

Sand


Definition:

  • (n.) Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
  • (n.) A single particle of such stone.
  • (n.) The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life.
  • (n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide.
  • (n.) Courage; pluck; grit.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle or cover with sand.
  • (v. t.) To drive upon the sand.
  • (v. t.) To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
  • (v. t.) To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The characteristics of the iodide-induced inhibition of cyclic AMP accumulation in dog thyroid slices have been previously described [Van Sande, J., Cochaux, P. and Dumont, J. E. (1985) Mol.
  • (2) Two control trials were conducted against Ae.samoanus larvae in Pandanus, one using a sand culture of the parasitic nematode Romanomermis culicivorax and the other with temephos, an organophosphate insecticide.
  • (3) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
  • (4) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
  • (5) GNM announced in October that Marc Sands, the marketing director, was to leave the company .
  • (6) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
  • (7) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
  • (8) Images of dead ducks in oil sands tailings pond have been plastered on billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis.
  • (9) Bacterial genera in the GAC effluents and in the GAC units themselves were similar to those found in the raw water and in the sand beds.
  • (10) He exited the sand trap sideways, was ultimately left 8ft for par but missed to the left.
  • (11) The prevalence of canine toxocariasis in pet dogs and the associated environmental contamination were studied through examination of 107 faecal and 20 sand-pits samples for Toxocara sp eggs.
  • (12) Most definitive results were obtained when seedlings were ground in the presence of sand and in a medium containing sorbitol.
  • (13) Sanding operations also were found to produce a higher proportion of respirable dust (22%) than other woodworking operations (6%-14%).
  • (14) The fertilization reaction of echinoderm eggs (Lytechinus pictus, a sea urchin, and Dendraster excentricus, a sand dollar) was followed with intracellular electrodes.
  • (15) Since its 2013 announcement, a key aim of TTIP has been to destroy regulations that prevent high-polluting tar sand crude oil from entering Europe.
  • (16) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
  • (17) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (18) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
  • (19) Read more on Scottish independence • ' I believe in solidarity with the folk living south of Carlisle ' • ' The UK is on shifting sands – we can't assume survival ' • ' Better Together is truly scraping the barrel now ' The fact is that far from fearing the breakup of the UK, the English are looking at the benefits that devolution has brought the Scots and asking why they are not able to enjoy the same.
  • (20) The formation of three-dimensional waves and the distance travelled increased with increasing viscosity up to 4% sodium alginate and also amongst sand gains in these media.

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